Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-09-10

Dear ElEG-1Dur LahUr OF aug EL 1LA LGIGAN Gu
County Commissioners are elected Tor gwen ter
ritCry that IL % say. the law requires the Board
OF county commissioners 70 divide lhelT county
into districts giving b0undrles thereto II mem
Der Of the Board Of County Commissioners Is
elected for district number one and he should re-
move from district number one and become cltl-
zen OF district number two, district number TWO
already having commissioner the onlce OF COM
missioner for district number one would become
vacant 1 can conceive how man might move 20
the county seat temporarily and retain his ONCE as
county commissioners for district number one,
territory not occupied by the county seat but if
your county commissioner has moved out OF the
district 10 remain out Of IL and make his home
out Of, it works a vacancy in the office.
5. B. BRADFORD,
Attorney General.
In cases Of their being a vacancy on
the Board, the law provides that the
two remaining members and the Coun-
~ Clerk, shall ill such vacancy by ap-
pointmens. This they met TO do on
Saturday last, the Sd instant. Imag-
inc their surprise when Mr.. Covington
appeared and claimed he was still a
member of the Board, and that ne pro-
posed to act right along as a member d.
When asked on what ground he based
such claim, he replied that he still
claimed Logan as his place of resi-
dence. To say that every one was sur
Plised at this extraordinary claim, Is
stating it mildly. Mr.. CoYingtOn has
started the publication of the Phillips
burg Democrat; he rented his Logan
residences he moved bis family
and all his household goods TO Phil
lipsburg, and here he is in business,
and here is his family. But what
could Commissioners Mcdowell and
Ham and County Clerk Hartman do?
The law says, to create a vacancy, the
Commissioner must move out of the
district and COvington says he did not
remove to Phillipsburg, but his perma-
nent residence is in Logan. eve won
der if Mr.. CoYington will try to vote in
Logan on the same groundsD
Here we will leave the matter to be
settled by Capt. Covington and the
people Of the first district, with the
further remark that we very much
doubt if any action of the commission
ers will be legal when Covington's
vote determines a question before the
Board
The prospect is that a great deal OF
litigation may grow out Of business at
tempted to be transacted by a Board
of Commissioners, TWO members of
which reside in the second district, and
the first district having no member ac-
tually residing within its limits. That
Mr.. Covington moved to Philhpsburg
with intent Of making it his future
home is highly probable; that he is in
no fair, or proper sense a citizen of LO-
gan is pretty certain. If he does in
tend to abandon his newspaper ven
ture, and take his family back to Logan
he ought to frankly so state. His best
friends will hardly attempt to defend
/ his unaccOuntable course in muddiing
up the county affairs, and opening
wide the door for veXatious law suits
We have no personal il-feeling agains
editor Covington. We believe, how
ever, he has made a big blunder il
| trying to hold his seat on the Board o
| Commissioners under existing circum
stances, and many of his own persona
and political friends will regret his i'll
/ advised action.